The incredible life of one of the most fascinating scientists whose investigations into human sexuality ignited the sexual revolution.
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy is the author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, The Public School Phenomenon and The Interior Castle, a biography of Gerald Brenan.
Meticulous and energetic, critical where necessary, never coy, with
some brilliant swerves of presentation and a delicious line in
low-key humour. Sex, of course, is endlessly gripping but
Gathorne-Hardy gives a sense of lifting the subject out of the mean
and shabby into a wonderful, humane light, paralleling precisely
what Kinsey himself did
*Daily Express*
An excellent, far from adulatory biography
*New Statesman*
An affecting portrait...Gathorne-Hardy's enthusiasm for his subject
is infectious... An excellently researched book
*Literary Review*
A deeply humane book... This biography's vivid protrait of a genius
possessed is so compelling... Kinsey is one of the most fascinating
and influential figures of the twentieth century, a flawed
visionary whose brave and amusing experiences are a testament to
the rich complexity of human sexuality... With grace and wit
Gathorne-Hardy has given us the full measure of the man
*Daily Telegraph*
At exactly the right moment, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has produced a
serious study of Kinsey, of the man and the work... This is the
book we need to cap Kinsey's work of liberation at his century's
end
*Gore Vidal*
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